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[Firearcher]

This "Korean" school is located in Wuxi, China. (Near Shanghai) Does anyone have any information on this school? Good / bad???

There are a few posts online that seem to originate from the same source hinting that the school is a scam or misrepresents itself.

Any insight is appreciated.

Thank You

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

If you want to work but not be paid, work for them. A good friend quit after waiting almost two months for her salary. Caution, please.

[Baozi man]

I have a Korean student among my Chinese ones. The kid is a nightmare; sneaky, disrespectful, and subtly influential in a disruptive way. I'd love to throw him out into the street. I now understand why many American Blacks hate the Koreans.

Not sure if he is typical. If so, I'd avoid any school which caters to Korean Chinese students.

[Lobster]

So would I. I find them to be unmotivated and difficult to teach.

RED

[JamesD]

I worked in Japan and Korea before moving to China and have spent a good bit of time in about 12 other countries. I find Korean students to be the most ignorant, rude, disrespectful, and uncouth people on the planet. (And that includes French yuppies.)
Don't even get me started on Korean managers' dishonesty; they're in a class of their own.

EDIT: OK, cooled down and need to qualify. I do not know the school in question; comments above are based on my personal experience teaching in Korea. The kids had no respect for anyone, foreign or local, outside their family unit. 95% of the adults I met were xenophobic to a manic degree and managers preferred manipulation and posturing to discussion.

A few years ago a Korean mother brought her kid to me and asked about lessons. Thinking I couldn't understand, the kid turned to his mother and said, "This monkey looks ok."
I looked him in the eye and told him (in Korean) maybe he could learn from a monkey but I didn't think I could teach one without manners. Rather than be embarrassed the kid blew up and started throwing attitude telling me I was the one being paid so I should be more polite. End of meeting.

[Baozi man]

What's important to realize is not how rotten Korean students are. What's important is to recognize how important the quality of the students is to the teacher's experience. I spent years at a school with a sociopathic administration and rotten housing because I liked the students.

The school did have a discipline department which really helped keep students in order. Korean nightmares would have been decidely dealt with.

That's a major problem with for profit education. Administrators who are not in the classroom are concerned with money, not the classroom environment. If it's hell for the FT, that's not their problem unless we make it their problem. Sometimes, this effort has unexpected consequences, such as job forfeiture.

If having a good working environment is important, we may have to be prepared to lose a job.

[whistleatuneor2]

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[rogerwilco]